Keywords:
Environmental policy -- United States.
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Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Environmental sciences -- United States.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book reviews and analyzes the period in the last half century where "the environment" became an issue as important as economic growth to many people; to assess the current situation and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. The authors are a distinguished group of individuals who have played important roles in conservation and the development of environmental policy throught out much of the world.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (477 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780198042266
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3053022
DDC:
333.72
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Quest for Environmental Sustainability: The Coevolution of Science, Public Awareness, and Policy -- PART I: SETTING THE STAGE: PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT -- 1 The Environmental Movement in the United States -- 2 International Environmental Policy: Some Recollections and Reflections -- 3 The Global 2000 Report and Its Aftermath -- 4 Sustainable Conservation: Can It Be Done? -- PART II: BIODIVERSITY, WILDLIFE ECOLOGY, AND MANAGEMENT -- 5 Conservation of Sensitive Biodiversity Areas -- 6 Protected Areas: Science, Policy, and Management to Meet the Challenges of Global Change in the Twenty-First Century -- 7 Ecological and Intellectual Baselines: Saving Lions, Tigers, and Rhinos in Asia -- 8 Observations on Trends and Issues in Global Conservation -- PART III: FOREST AND RANGE ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT -- 9 Half Century of American Range Ecology and Management: A Retrospective -- 10 Policy Failures in African Rangeland Development -- 11 The Role of Science and Scientists in Changing Forest Service Management Relative to Sustainability -- PART IV: MARINE CONSERVATION, ECOLOGY, AND MANAGEMENT -- 12 Sustainable Use of Wild Marine Living Resources: Notion or Myth? -- 13 Marine Mammal Conservation -- 14 Marine Wildlife Policy: Underlying Ideologies -- PART V: ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT -- 15 Overcoming Barriers to Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development -- 16 The Global Challenge of Sustainable Development -- 17 Biodiversity Conservation in the Real World: Incentives, Disincentives, and Disconnects -- 18 Resource Wars -- 19 Conservation and Development: The Nam Theun 2 Dam Project in Laos -- PART VI: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT -- 20 A Biocultural Basis for an Ethic toward the Natural Environment.
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21 Evolving Earth's Environmental Law: Perspectives on a Work in Progress -- 22 The Evolution of Sustainability in Forest Management Policy -- PART VII: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE -- 23 The Future of Ecology and the Ecology of the Future -- 24 A New Environmentalism: Conservation and the Core of Governmental Purpose -- 25 Climate Change and Prospects for Sustainability -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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